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Assam actor Adil Hussain, who has been nominated for the best actor category for Norway’s top national movie award Amanda for his role in ‘What Will People Say’, is all set to act in his first Khasi language feature film. Hussain will play a role in the film ‘Lorni’ to be directed by Wanphrang Diengdoh […]

Leaving the kiss controversy behind, popular Bollywood singer Angarag ‘Papon’ Mahanta is back to work. The singer, who spent some time away from the limelight, has taken painting as stress buster. Making his first public appearance in Guwahati recently, the singer-composer was seen focusing on completing an Assamese video song. “I want to forget everything […]

Beautifully handcrafted Kauna products, made by local artisans of Manipur and other states of the Northeast region, are now available for sale on e-commerce platforms. Livelihood Propulsion and Support Services (LPSS), incubated by Centre for Micro-finance and Livelihood (CML) – an initiative of Tata Trusts, has listed a number of products made by the artisans […]

National record holder para-cyclist Abhishek Gogoi has been struggling to raise funds to buy a cycle and other necessary accessories to take part in Summer Special Olympics to be held in March 2019 in Abu Dhabi. The 17-year-old Assam para-cyclist qualified for the Special Olympics using borrowed cycles. The record was set in the ‘Cycling […]

A group of youth in Assam’s Barpeta district, on the bank of river Beki, has started a library for the flood-affected children. The youth, belonging to Barpeta’s char areas which are affected by seasonal floods, crowd-sourced more than 1,000 books to set up the library. The library caters the needs of the flood-affected children of […]

Twenty eight-year old Namita Haloi, who suffers from visual impairment, has braved all the odds of her life. She not only works for a telecom company to earn her livelihood but also spearheads a movement seeking rights for the differently-abled persons in Assam. Haloi who represents an organization called State Level Federation of Disabled People’s […]

Los Angeles-based Ivanhoe Pictures’ global executive vice president Kilian Kerwin who is co-producing Jahnu Barua’s maiden international project ‘Unread Pages’ said that he wants the film to compete with the best films across the globe. Kerwin, who has earlier worked in some projects in India, is hopeful that this film will project Assam in the […]

Boni Narah and her husband used to incur losses every year due to flood in the rural Majuli doing paddy cultivation. But their fortunate has changed with the new methodology. The farmer couple has enhanced their harvest by multiple times after adopting the SRI (Systematic Root Intensification) method. Now, they have become an example in their neighbourhood. […]

Award winning Assamese filmmaker Bobby Sarma Baruah is making a film in Sherdukpen language which is spoken by just around 4,000 people in some parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The film named ‘Mishing’ is based on the novel with the same name written by Sahitiya Akademy award winning author Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi. “We are extremely happy […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded Ahmed Ali, a rickshaw-puller from Karimganj district of Assam, who has established nine schools in his area, during ‘Mann Ki Baat’. “When I read in letters sent by you that how a rickshaw puller from Assam’s Karimganj, Ahmed Ali, built nine schools for poor children, it gives me […]